Date post: | 10-Feb-2017 |
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How Can We Trust the Historical Reliability of
the New Testament?
SKEPTICS
Our very first reference to Jesus’ tomb being empty is in the Gospelof Mark, written 40 yearslater by someone living in a different country whohad heard that it was empty. How would he know?
- Bart Ehrman
Can historians prove that Jesus was raised from the dead? (I always argue that no, no one can prove it.) Are the Gospel accounts of Jesus reliable? (No, not completely.)
In order to draw material from the Jewish Antiquities, as he appears to have done, Luke could not have written before 94 A.D - Richard Carrier
“No work … of any kind has ever been discovered, … which may be looked upon as furnishing additional evidence of the existence of those gospels, and which was executed earlier than the latter part of the second century”
- Charles Burlingame Waite
According to these scholarsand authors The New
Testament is NOTHistorically Reliable
Early
Corroborated
Unchanged
Unbiased
Point 1Written Early
Destruction of the JewishTemple in Jerusalem
Therefore…
USS Arizona Pearl Harbor
Conclusion – Written Prior to 70 A.D.
Point 2Corroborated
Antiquities of the Jews
Thallus Mara Bar-Serapion
Phlegon
Pliny the YoungerSuetonius
Lucian of Samosata
Celsus
Jewish Talmud
The Toledot Yeshu
The Early Church Fathers
Non-Christian Story Line about Jesus
1.Jesus lived during time of Tiberius Caesar2.He lived a virtuous life3.He was a wonder-worker4.He had a brother named James
Non-Christian Story Line about Jesus5.He was acclaimed to be the Messiah6.He was crucified under Pontius Pilate7.He was crucified on the eve of the Jewish
Passover8.Darkness and an earthquake occurred
when he died
Non-Christian Story Line about Jesus
9.His disciples believed he rose from the dead
10.His disciples were willing to die for their belief
11.Christianity spread rapidly as far as Rome
12.His disciples denied the Roman gods and worshiped Jesus as God
Conclusion – New Testament is Corroborated
Point 3Unchanged
Conclusion – the New TestamentMessage was
Unchanged
Point 4Unbiased
4 Point Recap
•Early•Corroborated
•Unchanged•Unbiased
Acknowledgments